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Virus case count rises in Atchison Co

By Brian Hagen

04/21/2020

(KAIR)--New details regarding Atchison County’s COVID-19 cases are released, as the number of confirmed positive cases grows to 7.

According to a joint release from Atchison County Emergency Management and the Atchison County Health Department Tuesday evening, the latest patient is a man in his twenties who is isolating at home.

In the release, Atchison County Health Officer Lori Forge clarified there has been no confirmed community spread in Atchison County.

She said the first county case was travel related while the additional six cases “are directly related to an outbreak in another county.”

Nearby Leavenworth County has the highest number of confirmed positive cases in the local Kansas area with 136.

Figures released Tuesday by the Kansas Department of Health and environment show Jefferson and Pottawatomie Counties have 6 cases each.

Doniphan County has 3 confirmed cases, while Jackson County has 1.

As of Tuesday, Kansas confirmed 2,025 positives cases in the state and 107 deaths.

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